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From: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM>
To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: IDE/eIDE issues
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> I can't the hell get it to boot. After several tries with 
> 'missing operating system' results I finally got it to find
> the boot loader but when the kernel is being loaded
> all I can get is the first | from the twisting |/-\'s then hang.

I had no luck with 2.05R install with ide, similar symptoms. What worked
was to build a 10 meg dos partition and put freebsd on the partition after
that.  Seems silly, but it did the job for us. Your problem may not be 
this problem, however :=(

ron